Just a little side discussion – wouldn’t it be cool if Deep Purple would collaborate with Glenn Hughes on one song, just one song, on their next album?
It will likely DP’s last studio album, then why not bring in a member from the past to write and perform one song. I’ve seen pictures with Glenn Hughes, Roger Glover and Don Airey posing together, I’ve seen one with Hughes and Paice, and those were taken in 2009/10/11. I’ve also read an interview with Ian Gillan, were he said that Hughes is a great musician and he respects Hughes for that. The current line-up seems to be ‘friends’ with Hughes. Come on, wouldn’t it be great, just one song.
Lord and Blackmore won’t come back for one song, so why not Hughes…

Great to see Jon Lord as always………..we hope he is well & can collaborate on ‘that’ album with Blackmore some day soon……..put the magic back into the “Purple” again, well you know what I mean……….those two together again, says it all really……….wonderful comments from Lord regarding the award for innovators………MK1, MK2 & MK3 certainly were just that, as were so many other great bands from that era……….

It`s allways good to see Jon on stage. But the band is pure, the concerto should played like in 1969………I saw Jon in Liverpool last year…….he played “Notice such things”….which is a very great album….the band was great…..a real hard rock band….Ritchie will never perform this concerto again…..the guitarplayer Mark Zyk did a realy great job………..it´s something right to see a “man in black” with a with a stratocaster on stage.
For me it`s not worth to pay it…. like the Deep Purple Album Live in Montreaux…it only money money money…….the Concerto from 1969 is the only original things.
I´m waiting for Jons return…….to record a “new” album.